Life in Sweden; with Excursions in Norway and Denmark, Volume 2Hurst and Blackett, 1853 - Scandinavia |
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... passing at any side they like , and often forming a line quite across the street . If the foot passengers endeavour to thread their way , or creep as close as possible — not to the flags , for , with few exceptions , there is only an ...
... passing at any side they like , and often forming a line quite across the street . If the foot passengers endeavour to thread their way , or creep as close as possible — not to the flags , for , with few exceptions , there is only an ...
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... passing ; it is nothing in comparison of others . I have followed hand - carts in the street , the progress of which has been literally strewn with little fish ; and I believe I may challenge any one who has ever travelled with hired ...
... passing ; it is nothing in comparison of others . I have followed hand - carts in the street , the progress of which has been literally strewn with little fish ; and I believe I may challenge any one who has ever travelled with hired ...
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... passed off very well . I believe in the whole world such patient sight- seers as the Swedes could not be found . We were in the chapel two hours before the appointed time , and we were so far from being the first as to be considerably ...
... passed off very well . I believe in the whole world such patient sight- seers as the Swedes could not be found . We were in the chapel two hours before the appointed time , and we were so far from being the first as to be considerably ...
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... passed . My view has more than realised my Grefve's prediction ; it is becoming my constant companion ; and , much as I am disappointed with my quar- ters in other respects , I am sure I shall never re- gret that I am here , since in no ...
... passed . My view has more than realised my Grefve's prediction ; it is becoming my constant companion ; and , much as I am disappointed with my quar- ters in other respects , I am sure I shall never re- gret that I am here , since in no ...
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... passed , so that I started and clung to my companion's arm in the full belief that he had been seized with madness . At the other side of this large square , in the centre of which stands a statue of the hero of Protestantism , is the ...
... passed , so that I started and clung to my companion's arm in the full belief that he had been seized with madness . At the other side of this large square , in the centre of which stands a statue of the hero of Protestantism , is the ...
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Page 301 - Hear the sledges with the bells — Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Page 336 - For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth; so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.